Chernobyl

The purse from the Karpov-Kasparov 1986 London-Leningrad match ($900,000) was donated to the victims of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.The USSR Championship has being played in Kiev at the time of the Chernobyl accident.Over the past 15 years, Karpov had given over half a million dollars to the victims of Chernobyl and runs a Chernobyl Chess School for children.